Monastery of St. Paisios in Austria celebrates Patronal Feast with Hierarchical Divine Liturgy

On the Sixth Sunday of Matthew, July 12, 2026, Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria presided over the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of the Protection of the Holy Theotokos and St. Paisios the Athonite in Sankt Andrä am Zicksee, which celebrated the feast of its patron saint.

Concelebrating with the Metropolitan were Hieromonks Iakovos Giannopoulos and Andreas Bola, as well as Archdeacon Georgios Meleshko of the Holy Metropolis of Austria. Following the Divine Liturgy, pilgrims were invited to a festive monastic meal prepared by the fathers of the monastery.

A large number of faithful gathered to participate in the monastery’s patronal feast, taking part prayerfully in the liturgical celebration.

In his homily, Metropolitan Arsenios reflected on the Gospel reading of the healing of the paralytic, emphasizing that the miracle reveals Christ not merely as a healer of physical ailments but as the One who restores humanity’s communion with God.

The Metropolitan explained that the paralytic stood before the God-Man Jesus Christ, in whom the divine and human natures are united “without confusion, without change, without division, and without separation,” according to…